2021-05-06 12:56:22 GMT2021-05-06 20:56:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
KAMPALA, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Nurses and midwives in Uganda on Thursday started their sit-down strike after they failed to reach a consensus with government over payment of their lunch allowance.
Justus Cherop Kiplangat, president of Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union, told Xinhua by telephone that only critical personnel have been left to work in the emergency section and intensive care units.
Kiplangat said the country's President Yoweri Museveni on May 12, 2018 promised to increase the lunch allowance of the nurses and midwives but up to now nothing has been effected.
Robinah Nabbanja, minister of state for health in charge of general duties, told Xinhua by telephone that government will continue to negotiate with the nurses and midwives to call off the strike, saying the promises made by the president will be fulfilled in due course.